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Welcome to FreeVT V0.4, 24. April 1995
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- What is FreeVT?
FreeVT is a little project of mine. I have spend allready many hours of work
in it and will also do in the future. My goal was to write a free VT100 for
the Psion S3a series palmtops. The reason why I chose to release this as
freeware under the terms of the Gnu Copying License (see file COPYING) is
that I wanted to start more freeware programming for the S3. There is a lot
of shareware software around, but nearly no free usable programs; and never
sourcecode. I do not claim for me to be a highly qualified programmer. But
I did what was within my possibilities. Sources are included, so YOU can
have a look at them and YOU can improve whatever you dislike.
The Gnu Copying License also allows you to use the sources for whatever you
like, but you _have_ to include the used parts as sources in your product
and you have also to include a copy of the Gnu Copying License.
- State of the art :-)
Have a look at the file HISTORY to get a rough overview of what FreeVT is
capabable of. There are still lot's of VT100 commands missing. But in the
current release it is allready usable for most news- and mailreaders (I'm
testing FreeVT with Linux (a free Unix-clone for 386 and compatibles) and
tin,elm,bash).
- Installation
I have included, as said above, tho sourcecode "FREEVT.OPL". Just copy it
to your Psion into the \OPL\ directory and the icon "FREEVT.PIC" to the
"\OPD\" directory. Then recompile it.
You may also install the precompiled "FREEVT.OPA" by copying the OPA-file
(also included) to your \APP\ directory on your Psion.
You should also create a new directory "\FVT\" where your various settings
can be saved.
- Problems, error-reports, bug-fixes
Please send any of those either to
nils@asgard.si.sub.de
or
nils@vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
or
gl055@appl2.hrz.uni-siegen.de
Any help is very appreciated and will of course be mentioned in the docs!
- Sites to get FreeVT
comp.binaries.psion
Anonymous FTP:
(don't know if it's really there)
src.doc.ic.ac.uk /pub/packages/icdoc/psion3/comms/freevt*
(is here for sure)
ftp.uni-siegen.de
[141.99,128.1] /Lokales/div/freevt*
(will come)
vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
[141.99.208.50] /pub/psion3/LOCAL/comms/freevt*
(maybe :-)
ftp.uni-erlangen.de /pub/psion3/LOCAL/utilities/freevt*
You may also call
+49 271 3174028
my home Linux system. Login as "gast" and, at the prompt, type "soft".
Then change directory to "psion". To download the last release of FreeVT,
type for YModem
sb freevt.zip
for ZModem
sz freevt.zip
so long
CU
nils